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Summary
| Pages | No tags | Needs* tags | Missing tags | Editorial reviews | Technical reviews | Outdated pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 405 | 1 (1%) | 14 (4%) | 20 (5%) | 7 (2%) | 38 (10%) | 248 (62%) |
See also localization status of this section.
No tags
Found 1 pages. Learn more about how to tag pages.
Needs* tags
Found 14 pages. Learn more about how to deal with meta-tags.
Missing tags
At least missing one of the following: Navigation, WebMechanics, Search, Credibility, Security, Composing, Remixing, Design, Accessibility, CodingScripting, Infrastructure, Sharing, Collaborating, Community, Privacy, OpenPractices, Disambiguation
Found 20 pages. Learn more about how to tag pages.
- CSS preprocessor
- Callback function
- DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling)
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- GZip compression
- Grid
- Grid Areas
- Grid Axis
- Grid Cell
- Grid Lines
- Grid Row
- Grid Tracks
- Gutters
- Preflight request
- Proxy server
- Raster image
- Simple response header
- jQuery
- privileged code
Editorial reviews
Found 7 pages. Learn more about how to do an editorial review.
Technical reviews
Found 38 pages. Learn more about how to do a technical review.
- ARPA
- Application Context
- CIA
- CSRF
- Callback function
- Certified
- DMZ
- Descriptor (CSS)
- Event
- Function
- GPU
- Guard
- HMAC
- Hash
- Hotlink
- IIFE
- Mobile First
- Normative
- Object reference
- OpenGL
- Parent object
- Pseudo-element
- Raster image
- Reflow
- SLD
- Smoke Test
- Stacking context
- State machine
- TTL
- UDP
- XForm
- XInclude
- XLink
- XPath
- XQuery
- document environment
- non-normative
- privileged code
Outdated pages
Found 248 pages. These pages haven't been updated in over a year. Outdated pages can have problems with both content and format. Look at these pages and consider: Is this page talking about the Web of today? Does it look consistent with newer pages in this topic area? If not, make any needed changes.
- 404
865 days old - 502
865 days old - ARIA
710 days old - ARPA
525 days old - ASCII
451 days old - ATAG
710 days old - Accessibility
710 days old - Adobe Flash
860 days old - Algorithm
655 days old - Apple Safari
705 days old - Application Context
519 days old - Arpanet
798 days old - Bandwidth
465 days old - BiDi
710 days old - Blink
869 days old - Block
827 days old - Boot2Gecko
847 days old - Browser
794 days old - CIA
752 days old - CMS
752 days old - CRUD
745 days old - CSP
754 days old - CSRF
726 days old - CalDAV
788 days old - Card sorting
541 days old - CardDAV
788 days old - Certificate authority
786 days old - Certified
752 days old - Character
788 days old - Cipher
788 days old - Cipher suite
786 days old - Ciphertext
788 days old - Class
722 days old - Closure
752 days old - Codec
752 days old - Compile
752 days old - Compile time
752 days old - Constant
752 days old - Constructor
696 days old - Control flow
752 days old - Copyleft
752 days old - Crawler
752 days old - Cross-site scripting
443 days old - Cryptanalysis
745 days old - Cryptography
745 days old - DHTML
787 days old - DNS
787 days old - DTD
829 days old - Decryption
831 days old - Denial of Service
869 days old - Digest
787 days old - Digital certificate
655 days old - Distributed Denial of Service
787 days old - DoS attack
787 days old - Domain
787 days old - Domain name
787 days old - Dominator
526 days old - Dynamic typing
787 days old - ECMAScript
613 days old - Encapsulation
869 days old - Encryption
831 days old - Endianness
465 days old - Engine
687 days old - Entity header
375 days old - Exception
724 days old - FTU
704 days old - Firefox OS
787 days old - Forbidden response header name
642 days old - GIF
465 days old - GIJ
704 days old - GPL
818 days old - Gaia
869 days old - Garbage collection
481 days old - Gecko
787 days old - General header
375 days old - Git
479 days old - Global attribute
871 days old - Global variable
662 days old - Gonk
871 days old - Google Chrome
668 days old - Guard
859 days old - HTML5
871 days old - Head
550 days old - Header
375 days old - Host
787 days old - Hypertext
401 days old - I18N
787 days old - IANA
787 days old - ICANN
787 days old - ICE
649 days old - IDE
787 days old - IDL
787 days old - IETF
432 days old - IMAP
787 days old - IP Address
787 days old - IPv4
787 days old - IPv6
787 days old - IRC
850 days old - ISO
820 days old - ISP
787 days old - Idempotent
375 days old - Identifier
787 days old - Immutable
787 days old - Index
680 days old - Information architecture
541 days old - Inheritance
820 days old - Instance
787 days old - Internet
822 days old - JPEG
696 days old - Jank
873 days old - Java
557 days old - Key
655 days old - Keyword
787 days old - LGPL
787 days old - Ligature
710 days old - Local scope
662 days old - Local variable
662 days old - Locale
787 days old - Localization
787 days old - MIME type
372 days old - MathML
787 days old - Metadata
550 days old - Microsoft Edge
813 days old - Microsoft Internet Explorer
710 days old - Modern web apps
465 days old - Modularity
453 days old - Mozilla Firefox
787 days old - NAT
802 days old - NNTP
765 days old - NaN
724 days old - Namespace
745 days old - Netscape Navigator
745 days old - Node
765 days old - Normative
514 days old - Null
613 days old - Number
726 days old - OOP
745 days old - OWASP
802 days old - Object
745 days old - OpenGL
672 days old - OpenSSL
745 days old - Opera Browser
738 days old - Operand
738 days old - P2P
875 days old - PAC
437 days old - PDF
741 days old - PHP
436 days old - PNG
696 days old - POP3
741 days old - Parameter
875 days old - Percent-encoding
370 days old - Pixel
481 days old - Placeholder names
786 days old - Plaintext
784 days old - Polyfill
486 days old - Polymorphism
741 days old - Privileged
738 days old - Progressive web apps
465 days old - Property
802 days old - Property (CSS)
802 days old - Property (JavaScript)
525 days old - Protocol
738 days old - Prototype
525 days old - Pseudo-class
543 days old - RDF
738 days old - REST
765 days old - RGB
465 days old - RIL
738 days old - RSS
738 days old - RTF
738 days old - Random Number Generator
738 days old - Raptor
704 days old - Recursion
738 days old - Reflow
824 days old - Repo
738 days old - Request header
375 days old - Responsive web design
710 days old - Robots.txt
672 days old - SCM
733 days old - SDP
733 days old - SEO
443 days old - SIMD
643 days old - SISD
643 days old - SLD
672 days old - SMTP
733 days old - SOAP
733 days old - SQL
656 days old - SQL Injection
719 days old - STUN
733 days old - SVN
726 days old - Safe
376 days old - Scope
733 days old - Search engine
476 days old - Second-level Domain
765 days old - Semantics
393 days old - Server
733 days old - Session Hijacking
733 days old - Shim
785 days old - Signature
724 days old - Signature (security)
726 days old - Smoke Test
733 days old - Stacking context
710 days old - State machine
733 days old - Statement
679 days old - String
733 days old - Syntax
726 days old - Syntax error
487 days old - TCP
726 days old - TLD
726 days old - TLS
726 days old - TURN
726 days old - Tag
726 days old - Telnet
704 days old - Three js
726 days old - Type Conversion
726 days old - UDP
726 days old - UI
465 days old - URI
474 days old - URN
726 days old - UX
433 days old - Usenet
765 days old - Validator
726 days old - Value
612 days old - Variable
726 days old - VoIP
738 days old - W3C
787 days old - WAI
710 days old - WHATWG
787 days old - Web standards
563 days old - WebDAV
787 days old - WebGL
787 days old - WebKit
787 days old - WebP
704 days old - WebRTC
496 days old - WebSockets
738 days old - Wrapper
465 days old - XForm
824 days old - XHTML
560 days old - XInclude
515 days old - XLink
515 days old - XPath
592 days old - XQuery
592 days old - XSLT
787 days old - loop
480 days old - ltr
823 days old - mime
704 days old - non-normative
524 days old - rtl
823 days old
Localizations
Please help us to localize this documentation into different languages. Read more about how to translate.
| Language | Pages | Translated | Translations up to date |
|---|---|---|---|
| af | 361 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| bn-BD | 361 | 6 (1%) | 0 (0%) |
| cs | 362 | 4 (1%) | 0 (0%) |
| de | 399 | 34 (8%) | 24 (70%) |
| es | 361 | 30 (8%) | 9 (30%) |
| fa | 361 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| fr | 397 | 314 (79%) | 236 (75%) |
| it | 361 | 6 (1%) | 1 (16%) |
| ja | 361 | 79 (21%) | 60 (75%) |
| ko | 361 | 15 (4%) | 11 (73%) |
| pl | 361 | 6 (1%) | 1 (16%) |
| pt-BR | 361 | 39 (10%) | 27 (69%) |
| pt-PT | 361 | 12 (3%) | 6 (50%) |
| ro | 361 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| ru | 383 | 60 (15%) | 40 (66%) |
| zh-CN | 361 | 25 (6%) | 19 (76%) |
| zh-TW | 375 | 34 (9%) | 22 (64%) |
Current priorities
Technical Review
There are a lot of articles flagged for technical review. You can check if they are technically correct and correct them and/or remove the flag as appropriate.
Editorial Review
Articles need to be correctly formatted and spell-checked. Here is an example of a well-formatted entry.
Cut longer articles
If an article is too long, it needs to be reduced as per guidelines here. If you think a long article is particularly well written and deserves to be preserved, discuss it with us, on the MDN discussion forum. It can be moved to the appropriate area of MDN if it's deserving of it's own place on the site.
General check of completeness
There are a lot of articles. We should check to see if they need content and tag them appropriately.
Use the Glossary macro
Articles in the Glossary Area, the Learning Area and MDN in general should use the Glossary macro (where appropriate). You can learn more about the glossary macro here.
How to improve the content
Tagging standard
- If pages are related to a given technology, they should be tagged with that technology name.
- If pages need any type of work, a "Need*" tag should be added.
Link the glossary
While browsing and editing MDN, you can easly link any term to the glossary by using the Glossary macro.
It takes up to three possible parameters:
- The term to link to (note that terms are case insensitive)
- An alternate text to display (an expression identical to the term, a plural version, etc.)
- A flag indicating if the link must be displayed as a regular link (
1) or as a soft link (0, the default)
| Macro | Result |
|---|---|
| {{Glossary("Browser")}} | Browser |
| {{Glossary("Browser", "Web browser")}} | Web browser |
| {{Glossary("Browser", "Web browser", 1)}} | Web browser |
Writing a term definition
A term definition page must have three clear sections:
- A summary that shortly defines the term (one to two sentences at most)
- An in-depth definition that provides all the necessary details to understand what the term covers
- A "Learn more" section that provides various links to dig deeper in the area covered by this term
The content of a term definition must be written assuming the reader has no specific knowledge about the term and its usage. Use simple and straightforward English. Try to avoid as many technicalities as possible (it's not always possible but try to simplify).
Please remember that while gathering information from other sites is a good thing, it isn't good practice to copy and paste passages (or even entire articles) from them (otherwise we could just link to them).
For more detailed information check out the "how to write a new entry in the glossary" article.
Join the Glossary community
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- Meetings: Every 2 weeks on Wednesday in IRC